Applied Mathematics

Volume 9, Issue 3 (March 2018)

ISSN Print: 2152-7385   ISSN Online: 2152-7393

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Framing Noether’s Theorem

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DOI: 10.4236/am.2018.93021    1,186 Downloads   3,286 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

We discuss Noether’s theorem from a new perspective and show that the spatial continuous symmetries of a system are on one hand symmetries of the space and on the other hand are dictated by the system’s potential energy. The Noether’s charges arising from an infinitesimal motion, or a Killing vector field, of the space, are conserved if the Lie derivative of the potential energy by this vector field vanishes. The possible spatial symmetries of a mechanical system are listed according to the potential energy of the external forces.

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Viazminsky, C. (2018) Framing Noether’s Theorem. Applied Mathematics, 9, 274-286. doi: 10.4236/am.2018.93021.

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